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ArticleAbdominal radiology (New York)2025

Automated abdominal organ segmentation algorithms for non-enhanced CT for volumetry and 3D radiomics analysis.

Junghoan Park, Ijin Joo, Sun Kyung Jeon, Jong-Min Kim, Sang Joon Park, Soon Ho Yoon

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Junghoan ParkSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ijin JooSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. hijijin@gmail.com.
Sun Kyung JeonSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jong-Min KimMEDICAL IP. Co., Ltd, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Sang Joon ParkSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Soon Ho YoonSeoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea NRF-2021R1F1A1059901Seoul National University New Faculty Startup Fund
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purposeTo develop fully-automated abdominal organ segmentation algorithms from non-enhanced abdominal CT and low-dose chest CT and assess their feasibility for automated CT volumetry and 3D radiomics analysis of abdominal solid organs.

methodsFully-automated nnU-Net-based models were developed to segment the liver, spleen, and both kidneys in non-enhanced abdominal CT, and the liver and spleen in low-dose chest CT. 105 abdominal CTs and 60 low-dose chest CTs were used for model development, and 55 abdominal CTs and 10 low-dose chest CTs for external testing. The segmentation performance for each organ was assessed using the Dice similarity coefficients, with manual segmentation results serving as the ground truth. Agreements between ground-truth measurements and model estimates of organ volume and 3D radiomics features were assessed using the Bland-Altman analysis and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).

resultsThe models accurately segmented the liver, spleen, right kidney, and left kidney in abdominal CT and the liver and spleen in low-dose chest CT, showing mean Dice similarity coefficients in the external dataset of 0.968, 0.960, 0.952, and 0.958, respectively, in abdominal CT, and 0.969 and 0.960, respectively, in low-dose chest CT. The model-estimated and ground truth volumes of these organs exhibited mean differences between - 0.7% and 2.2%, with excellent agreements. The automatically extracted mean and median Hounsfield units (ICCs, 0.970-0.999 and 0.994-0.999, respectively), uniformity (ICCs, 0.985-0.998), entropy (ICCs, 0.931-0.993), elongation (ICCs, 0.978-0.992), and flatness (ICCs, 0.973-0.997) showed excellent agreement with ground truth measurements for each organ; however, skewness (ICCs, 0.210-0.831), kurtosis (ICCs, 0.053-0.933), and sphericity (ICCs, 0.368-0.819) displayed relatively low and inconsistent agreement.

conclusionOur nnU-Net-based models accurately segmented abdominal solid organs in non-enhanced abdominal and low-dose chest CT, enabling reliable automated measurements of organ volume and specific 3D radiomics features.

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AlgorithmsImaging, Three-DimensionalRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedRadiography, AbdominalTomography, X-Ray ComputedFemaleHumansKidneyLiverMaleMiddle AgedOrgan SizeRadiomicsSpleenComputerDeep LearningNeural NetworksOrgan SizeRadiomicsTomographyX-Ray Computed

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PMCPMC11821665

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